MEANING: noun: 1. A gift for good luck given at the beginning of the new year or a new venture.2. A first payment or installment. verb tr.: 1. To give a handsel to.2. To inaugurate or to do something for the first time.

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HANDGEL - the slimy stuff in a dispenser that you use to get the germs off your hands (It's gotta be more than 61% alcohol or it doesn't work)..orHANGEL - a British Cupid

PRONUNCIATION: (PAH-muhr) MEANING: noun: 1. A pilgrim. 2. An itinerant monk. 3. One who conceals a card or another object in a magic trick or in cheating in a game.

ETYMOLOGY:From Latin palma (palm tree, palm of the hand). The name of the palm tree derives from the resemblance of the shape of its frond to the palm of a hand. In Medieval Europe, a pilgrim brought back a palm branch as a token of his pilgrimage. Earliest documented use: 1300. Also see palmy & palmary. ==================++++++++++++============================

PSALMER - a singer who sits beneath palm trees who gives balm and brings calm to the unease of all pilgrams who have ears to listen.

PRONUNCIATION: (GAL-uh-vant) MEANING:verb intr.: To roam about in search of pleasure. ETYMOLOGY:Perhaps alteration of gallant, from Old French galer (to rejoice). Earliest documented use: 1823.===========================================================

GALLIRANT - a wandering rant. (ranting is more fun than gallivanting) .

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